Oh the suspense!!!!!!!!!!! What's he doing?? What would entail such a subject line?!?! I hereby bequeath this YouTube link (at the end of the paragraph) to you all as a testament of my sacrifice. No, but seriously, don't make fun of me. The story behind this is the following: First, I had sung at that one Christmas concert thing for our ward before and got some good feedback from a lot of people. I also felt bad that you guys couldn't hear/see it. And the Spirit was really strong when I sung and so I really wanted to do it again. But time went on, and I wasn't really sure when I'd ever have an opportunity again. Second, I got a call the night before zone training and the zone leaders said they didn't have a musical number for the next day. So I said that I'd be willing to do one. We went back to the office and I was looking through my piano music, trying to decide what to play, but none of it felt right. So I looked online and ended up finding a website that had voice and piano solos. Third, I mustered up all of my courage and decided to sing for the missionaries and President and Sister Robinson at our zone training. The debut (sequel) of Elder Johnson. Click Here for Enjoyment Purposes Sorry for the bad quality, I asked Sister Robinson to take a video on her iPad so that I could send it to my Mom =)
So there's the surprise I mentioned last week. I also reserved a bed in the new Helaman Halls at BYU. I'll be in a shared room (two beds.... the fool better not snore) that's part of a larger room with six people total. It's got a living room and a kitchen. I think it'll all be pretty fun.... I'm not really sure of anybody that's available to room with at this point. So far everyone I've talked to about it is either not going to BYU or isn't going to be living on-campus. So that kinda sucks, but it'll be fun to make new friends... i hope....
I was thinking the other day about this one girl I had met at that FBLA National Conference in San Antonio. She was from Riverton, Utah, and wasn't a member of the Church. But a proclaimed atheist actually =) And she was very open about it, almost proud. But I remember that through the course of a bunch of events, God led me in a way to a point where we became pretty good friends and were open with each other about a lot of things. She ended up talking to me about why she had so much trouble with Mormons and it was a really sad story actually. It made me mad that because other people weren't setting good examples or following Christ like they should have been, she was really impacted by that. After she opened up to me about these things, I felt really strongly the desire to just help her. And so I bore my testimony to her about what we do believe in, especially in God as our loving Heavenly Father. And I told her about how none of us are even close to perfect and we all make tons of mistakes, but those aren't our standards. Our standards are higher goals that we strive to do, but unfortunately are too weak to achieve at times. I'll always remember that experience though as being one of the only times that I really did missionary work before my mission. The Spirit was super strong as I talked to her about those things and as we talked about what that all meant. I really hope she's gone farther to learn more and accept the gospel of Jesus Christ. It's just so worth it! It brings so much happiness and the gospel itself is perfect! Everything is better through and with the Gospel. It still strikes me how strong that desire to help her was. I try to remember that every day =)
So there's my spiritual thought for the week =) Love you guys a lot, have a great week! Bye bye
So there's the surprise I mentioned last week. I also reserved a bed in the new Helaman Halls at BYU. I'll be in a shared room (two beds.... the fool better not snore) that's part of a larger room with six people total. It's got a living room and a kitchen. I think it'll all be pretty fun.... I'm not really sure of anybody that's available to room with at this point. So far everyone I've talked to about it is either not going to BYU or isn't going to be living on-campus. So that kinda sucks, but it'll be fun to make new friends... i hope....
I was thinking the other day about this one girl I had met at that FBLA National Conference in San Antonio. She was from Riverton, Utah, and wasn't a member of the Church. But a proclaimed atheist actually =) And she was very open about it, almost proud. But I remember that through the course of a bunch of events, God led me in a way to a point where we became pretty good friends and were open with each other about a lot of things. She ended up talking to me about why she had so much trouble with Mormons and it was a really sad story actually. It made me mad that because other people weren't setting good examples or following Christ like they should have been, she was really impacted by that. After she opened up to me about these things, I felt really strongly the desire to just help her. And so I bore my testimony to her about what we do believe in, especially in God as our loving Heavenly Father. And I told her about how none of us are even close to perfect and we all make tons of mistakes, but those aren't our standards. Our standards are higher goals that we strive to do, but unfortunately are too weak to achieve at times. I'll always remember that experience though as being one of the only times that I really did missionary work before my mission. The Spirit was super strong as I talked to her about those things and as we talked about what that all meant. I really hope she's gone farther to learn more and accept the gospel of Jesus Christ. It's just so worth it! It brings so much happiness and the gospel itself is perfect! Everything is better through and with the Gospel. It still strikes me how strong that desire to help her was. I try to remember that every day =)
So there's my spiritual thought for the week =) Love you guys a lot, have a great week! Bye bye